Listening for the Unheard Voices

Community First: Impacts of Community

Engagement (CFICE)

1. Introducing CFICE

2. Setting the Campus Community Context

3. Role of Evaluation in CFICE

4. Dialogue

Presentation Outline

Listening for the Unheard Voices:CF:ICE Introductions

Presenters: • Geri Briggs, Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning/

Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement• Jane Hennig, Volunteer Action Centre of Kitchener-Waterloo & Area• Gary Martin, PhD, Community Environmental Sustainability Hub• Chris Yordy, PhD Student Researcher• Elizabeth Whitmore Professor Emerita School of Social Work

CFICE Context

Climate ChangeGrowing inequality

Funding challengesPersistent Unemployment

Community Based Organizations

Post Secondary Institutions

Social justiceLearn/ResearchServices

Advocacy

Educate

Community EngagementCommunity Engaged Pedagogy

Campus Activities

Campus Operations

Social justice

Social and Economic Environment

Violence

Food SecurityNatural Environment Poverty

Community Development

Betterment of society

Critical independent thoughtKnowledge,

ExperienceConnections

Resources, knowledge

CFICE PurposeMore Successful, Innovative, Prosperous, and

Resilient Communities

Question:

How can community campus partnerships be designed and implemented to maximize the value created for non-profit,

community-based organizations?

How we’ll get thereCarleton University and the CACSL co-manage CFICE. Five self-managing research hubs carry out the work:• Poverty Reduction, Vibrant Communities

Canada• Community Food Security, Food Secure

Canada• Community Environmental Sustainability,

the Trent Centre for Community-Based Education

• Violence Against Women, Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies

• Knowledge Mobilization, Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning

Policy and program change:• Universities and Colleges• Governments and Foundations• Community-Based Organizations

– Strengthened Public Policies and Programs– Strengthened CBO Partnership Capacities– More Effective Partnership Policies in and

Performance by PSE Institutions– More Appropriate, Sustained Partnership

Support by Governments and Foundations– Critical Mass of Multi-Generational Leaders – Pan-Canadian Networks

CFICE will be exploring the barriers and enabling factors for Community Campus Engagement to assist Community Based Organizations to achieve their goals

1. How do you demonstrate outcomes of your organization?

2. How do you assess the contribution of CCE to meeting the organizational goals?

3. What gets in the way of CCE and what supports it?

DIALOGUE QUESTIONS:

Public and PrivateFunders

Carleton University

SSHRC

Community Environmental Sustainability(Hub Co-leads)

Program Committee(All Hub Co-leads)

Project Secretariat(PI/CM/Adr)

CFICE Steering Committee(Co-chairs)

Poverty Reduction

(Hub Co-leads)

Sub-Projects and Other Activities with Participating National Networks, Community Organizations, Universities, Colleges, Governments and Foundations

Violence AgainstWomen

(Hub Co-leads)

Community Food Security

(Hub Co-leads)

KMb (Hub Co-leads)

Hubs

CFICE ORGANIZATION

CES Hub - OttawaSLOE-Obates project

Goal is to help CBO (SLOE) create green planning for large redevelopment project in Ottawa

My role

Provide links on campus and in sustainable building community in Ottawa

Administration

DiscussionQuestion for dialogue:

How do you reconcile the evaluation needs on the ground with reporting requirements of funders?